Gorbachev calls for global court for environmental crimes

AFP ^ | March 13, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called on Tuesday for the creation of an international court to try environmental crimes, in an interview published in French daily Le Monde.

"I would personally look favourably upon creating an international tribunal to try those responsible for environmental crimes, both business leaders and the heads of state or government," the 81-year-old Nobel Peace Prize recipient said.

Gorbachev, who was in the southern French city of Marseille on Monday to speak at the Sixth World Water Forum, has led the environmental pressure group Green Cross International since 1993.

[cripplecreek]

See spot beg.

[oh8eleven]

Once a commie, always a commie.

[BwanaNdege]

First defendant - Rachael Carson (oh, she’s dead already)
Second - Al Gore

[Timber Rattler]

OK, Gorby, let's start with you for Chernobyl...

[kidd]

Funny, coming from the only living Soviet leader who is responsible for the Aral Sea disaster, considered by most rational people to be the biggest man-made environmental disaster ever.

Make a citizen’s arrest of yourself Gorby, then we’ll know you’re serious.

[moose07]

“Ping”

[cripplecreek]

Chernobyl is a direct result of communism. Good standing with the party put bad people in positions of power while good nuclear physicists and technicians were relegated to subordinate roles.

[PGR88]

First defendent

Michael Gorbachev.

Chernobyl
Dried up Aral Sea
Dead Oka River
Dead Caspian Sea

[rlmorel]

[DPMD]

Put him in the docket first for Chernobyl.

[TexasRepublic]

Communism is an environmental crime. The former Soviet Union and China are ecological disasters.

[dfwgator]

As soon as Gorby stands trial for ordering the massacre of 13 Lithuanians in 1991.

[G Larry]

He must be refering to the Soviet obliteration of the Aral Sea, or nuclear polution of the Arctic Ocean....

[muawiyah]

Or possibly societies that try to conduct civilization while having no sewers or privies.

You could just round them all up and.......... well, you'd need to ask a Commie about what to do next.

[muawiyah]

Or possibly societies that try to conduct civilization while having no sewers or privies.

You could just round them all up and.......... well, you'd need to ask a Commie about what to do next.

[Buckeye McFrog]

or Magnitogorsk (it makes Pittsburgh of the 1940’s look clean by comparison)

[Mike Darancette]

"I would personally look favourably upon creating an international tribunal to try those responsible for environmental crimes, both business leaders and the heads of state or government,"

His 15 minutes is so over.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Here’s one guy who waited until most of the twentieth century was over before asserting himself as one of the century’s biggest idiots.

[xp38]

I see China supporting this in a heartbeat. /sarc